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Video Chess disassembled and commented
A fully commented disassembly of Video Chess
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,925 posts.
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Bots won't replace apps, only better apps will replace apps
Why conversational UI fails in practice and what the West can really learn from Asian messaging apps.
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"Another World" (game) Code Review
I spent two weeks reading and reverse engineering further the source code of Another World ("Out Of This World" in North America). I based my work on Gregory Montoir's "binary to C++" initial reverse engineering from the DOS executable. I was amazed to discover an elegant system based on a virtual machine interpreting…
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EFF Patent Project Gets Half-Million-Dollar Boost from Mark Cuban and 'Notch'
San Francisco - America's broken patent system needs major reform to protect innovators and the public. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is announcing a major new boost to its patent work: a half-million dollars in funding from entrepreneur Mark Cuban and game developer Markus "Notch...
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20 years on AWS and never not my job
While I created my AWS account because I was interested in Amazon S3, that was not in fact immediately available to me: In the early days of AWS, you had to specifically ask for each new service to be enabled for your account. My new AWS account did come with two services enabled by default, though — Amazon Simple…
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Python For Feature Film
A look into how Python is used to bring your favorite movies to the big screen.
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The Awk book’s 60-line version of Make
A discussion of the minimal version of Make included in 'The AWK Programming Language', as well as a Python port of the AWK program.
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What is malloc doing, anyway?
malloc has a very nice and simple interface: you ask for a certain amount of memory, and you’re given a void pointer to your block of contiguous bytes that’s been magicked into existence. Once you’re done with it, you call free with the same pointer and the memory disappears into the ether.
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Elixir and Machine Learning in 2024 so far: MLIR, Arrow, structured LLM, etc.
An update on the latest advancements of Elixir, data, and Machine Learning.
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Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance
Large Language Models (LLMs) are typically presumed to process context uniformly—that is, the model should handle the 10,000th token just as reliably as the 100th. However, in practice, this assumption does not hold. We observe that model performance varies significantly as input length changes, even on simple tasks…
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Last Mile Redis
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee
The Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee. Apache has served on the EC for the past 10 years, winning the JCP "Member of the Year" award 4 times, and recently was ratified for another term with support from 95% of the voting community. Further, the project communities…
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Now That's What I Call Social Proof
Watch streaming video, find interesting podcasts, and discover classic music and new songs from independent artists.
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FORCEDENTRY: Sandbox Escape
Posted by Ian Beer & Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero We want to thank Citizen...
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Godot gets a brand new animation editor with cinematic support
The existing animation system in Godot was already one of the most powerful of any game engine, but its age was starting to show (it was written 10 years ago and barely improved). The new one builds upon the strengths of the previous one but does massive improvements to features and usability.
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Gordon Freeman at the Olympic Games
Since the dawn of October 1st 2022 , the world has been plagued by the question:
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An Open Letter to Members of the W3C Advisory Committee
Dear member of the World Wide Web Consortium's Advisory Committee, You may have heard that over the past year we've been trying to insert legal safeguards into the Encrypted Media Extensions project at the W3C, which standardizes streaming video DRM. We've previously been opposed to the W3C...
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The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part V: Ladders Are Chaos
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2020260 points40 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
This is the fifth part of a series taking a historian’s look at the Battle of Helm’s Deep (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. VIII) from both J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers (1954) and Peter Jackson…
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Exploring Linux command-line space time
I was curious to explore how long a program takes to run, how much memory is used over time, and what processes/threads are spawned. To provide answers I wrote a tool, which I named st . Here are a few things I looked into.
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Practical Data Science in Python
Find, classify and remediate PII across your files, email, databases and cloud. Accurate AI-powered PII discovery – on-premise or SaaS.
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David J.C. MacKay, Machine Learning pioneer, dies
Thank you so much to lots of lovely friends who have offered to visit me in hospital! Ramesh and I are wanting to keep life really simple...
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Tilt: Visualize your web page's DOM in 3D
Tilt is a Firefox extension that lets you visualize any web page DOM tree in 3D. It is being developed by Victor Porof (3D developer responsible with the Firefox extension ...